---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance."
description: "Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5178"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5178 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall, W."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/241d3056-b3b7-4a1f-b2be-1f10f715113b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5178&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "39731902122a0cb85ffb5fa17490fd377b919e2a31a5bdd85fbb2484c57fd3fe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia HB 5178 (2024) — Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5178%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5178)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5178%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5178)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5178%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5178)
4. **hb5178 sfa clements _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5178%20sfa%20clements%20_1%202-28%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb5178 sfat clements _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5178%20sfat%20clements%20_1%202-28%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hall, W. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 324) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-28** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-29** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 330) `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Title amendment adopted
- **2024-03-01** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 492)
- **2024-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-07** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 189, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/241d3056-b3b7-4a1f-b2be-1f10f715113b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).